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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com

For years, Elizabeth Bruenig has witnessed executions across the country. What she saw has not changed her conviction that capital punishment must end. “But in sometimes-unexpected ways, it has changed my understanding of why,” she writes.

jun 10, 2025, 12:45 am • 71 14

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The Force Will Set Me Free 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️ @clearcutcontempt.bsky.social

No death chamber in current existence can compare to the board rooms of health insurance corporations, where uneducated nepobabies decide whether you really need the medicine your doctor has prescribed to you, and profit off of their decision to deny you that medicine your doctor has approved.

jun 10, 2025, 1:29 pm • 3 0 • view
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Adam Snow @ac3snow.bsky.social

Incredible piece! Thank you 🙏🏼

jun 10, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cate Eliza @catherinehandley.bsky.social

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jun 12, 2025, 11:13 am • 0 0 • view
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Ole Danielson @oledanielson.bsky.social

It is a core Christian tenet often commanded by Jesus that one must always allow for the possibility of redemption. This is an act of the deepest compassion for another human, and especially so when it is for one so flawed as to have committed ghastly crimes.

jun 10, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view